Bass Fishing
Chatter baits vs. swimming jigs
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be that much difference between where and how someone would fish a chatter-type bait versus a swimming jig.[…]
Year: 2013
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Rolling with the punches – Duck-hunting tactics for late-season success
Picture this. You’ve had a good opening to the duck season. But now the season has been underway a while and you haven’t had any cold fronts or strong south winds to bring in new birds or shake things up. They sky is blue-bird clear, and has been for days.[…]
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The learning curve
Is a popup blind on a boat the answer for you? When they first made their appearance, lots of hunters wrote them off tersely, with “They don’t work.”[…]
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Surface drives are fishing boats too
Boats equipped with surface drive engines were not long ago seen as an oddity in anything but duck-hunting situations.[…]
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Souping up surface drives
The power plant of choice for surface drive motors is the 35-horsepower Briggs & Stratton engine. These stock engines can be modified to improve their performance, something done every day by Andy Johnston and his crew at The Boat Doctor Inc. in Metairie.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspended Animation —Jerkbait tips for wintertime bass fishing
Cold water, shallow water, clear water; plenty of situations make it hard to get fish to bite. For largemouth bass, one of the biggest mistakes anglers make in these conditions is fishing too fast and pulling baits through the strike zone with only a brief window of opportunity for predators to make their move. […]
Bass Fishing
Jerkbait enhancement
With any jerkbait, a suspending posture at rest is usually what you want, but some days find the fish most interested in falling baits.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspend in the salt
When winter pushes trout and redfish into deeper canals and inner marsh arteries, suspending baits often earn the attention denied to sinking and faster-moving baits.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle up
West Monroe’s Jim Dillard throws his jerkbaits on a long rod of 6-foot-10 to 7-2, but nothing too heavy.[…]
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East Bay C&B — Load the boat with ducks and a variety of fish
After the stomping the Saints put on Detroit in the Dome, we were seriously pumped for the match in San Francisco the following week. For the occasion, Doc even installed an even wider screen TV in his Venice houseboat.[…]
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Looking back — Hunting has changed over the past few decades
My butt hurt and my back ached. For several hours I’d been sitting against a small holly tree watching a glade filled with rubs.[…]
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Gun control won’t stop evil
Evil exists.
And what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., on Dec. 14 was evil.[…]
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Yes, buffalo are fish
Actually, buffalo are three species of fish rather than one. No one knows from where the odd name for the creatures is derived. But their scientific names are almost certainly taken from their common name.[…]
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Cover: January 2013
You won’t believe what Casey Young went through to kill this 205-inch deer. Story on page 12.[…]